Word: simonizes
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...Books: Simon & Schuster's Napoleonic chief gets...
Until then Snyder, 61, had been one of the most powerful executives in publishing. Aggressive and abrasive, he had run Simon & Schuster since 1975 and increased the firm's revenues from $40 million to $2 billion. He achieved this growth largely by buying educational publishers like Prentice Hall. But those outfits didn't bring Simon & Schuster fame. It was its trade division -- the division that publishes the nonfiction books and novels available in bookstores -- that made waves...
Last week Richard Snyder, the CEO of the huge publishing house Simon & Schuster, and his young, third wife Laura Yorke invited a dozen Manhattan media swells to a dinner party. The guest of honor was to be Snyder's new boss, Sumner Redstone. Redstone's company, Viacom, acquired Simon & Schuster when it bought Paramount Communications, which owned the publisher. But the day before the party, Redstone left a message on Snyder's answering machine, backing...
Under Snyder, Simon & Schuster became almost as avid as a Hollywood studio in its pursuit of hot properties and star writers. Among the authors it rewarded with big advances were Jackie Collins, Mary Higgins Clark, Kitty Kelley, Bob Woodward, Rush Limbaugh and Ronald Reagan, who was reportedly paid $7 million for his memoirs. For class, Simon & Schuster plucked Philip Roth away from his prestige publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Although only about 10% of Simon & Schuster's revenues come from trade publishing, that is where the glitz lies. Says top literary agent Morton Janklow: "Trade publishing is like couture in fashion...
...most persistent investigator is Fadila Memisevic. She has compiled a list of 1,350 suspects along with evidence she believes to be strong enough to satisfy international legal standards. Memisevic, a Muslim refugee from Zenica, has received advice from Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in developing the cases and has applied his rule that each episode must be supported by the testimony of five witnesses. "In many cases we have 100 witnesses," she says...